Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker's private secretary and confidante. As the former she received $8,000 a year, as the latter a lot of laughs and good times. When Baker established her in the lavendercarpeted cooperative townhouse in December 1962, he had a more convenient base of operations for his extracurricular activities. They were many and diverse...
...earnestness beyond the classroom. Every day at 2:30, when school ended, Lowe went to the Roxbury Boys Club, where he served as a counsellor and monitor on a part-time basis. Usually he stayed at the Club until 6 p.m., although twice he worked there through midnight. This extracurricular association with the Club enabled Lowe to quit teaching without breaking off his work with children. Yesterday he became a full-time employee of the Boys Club, with increased opportunities for guidance counselling...
There is no relation between academic achievement and achievement in extra curricular activities among highly able students, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation reported recently, For Merit Finalists studied since 1956, performance in extracurricular science, art music, Cramatic and "leadership" activities varied independently of performance in courses...
Whisper's Cabot O'Reilly thought a Monro sentence as "neatly turned as the rump and calves of any co-ed who has trooped into a student's room," but tried to put the story in proper perspective by noting that "horizontal gymnastics has long been a popular extracurricular activity and time-honored Harvard tradition...
...scientist's concern with the present, with experimental evidence, and with codifying laws, is antithetical to a classically oriented program of General Education. When a scientist is concerned with the history of science, that history is extracurricular; the test of an economic theorem, a psychological law, or a chemical equation is its validity, not its history...